The California Department of Housing and Community Development
(HCD) recently released the housing element
Annual Progress Report Dashboard. The dashboard is intended
to provide useful housing-related data to policymakers,
stakeholders, and the general public.
On April 1 of each year, cities and counties must submit an
annual progress report (APR) with detailed information about the
prior year’s housing progress and pipeline, as well as updates on
their program commitments, to promote housing at all income
levels.
The dashboard shows all the APR data — previously only available
in multiple spreadsheets and PDFs — consolidated in one place and
reformatted as easy-to-use graphs and charts. It also includes
new data points that have never been published before, including
updates on housing element program commitments, housing
applications, and housing funding source information. This
information is all available with built-in filters that allow
users to customize their view and drill down to specific
geographies and information. The dashboard will be updated this
summer to include data received on the 2020 annual progress
reports that were due on April 1, 2021.
Counties can use the APR dashboard to:
Track housing production data at different income levels,
structure types, and geographies
Determine which cities and counties have HCD-certified
housing elements and whether they have submitted their annual
progress reports
Find out if a local government’s housing plan is compliant
and whether the agency submitted its APR
Track changes and trends over time or view stand-alone trends
Explore how housing tools, such as SB 35 streamlining and
density bonus, are being used
HCD will be hosting a webinar to walk stakeholders through the
dashboard’s features on May 4, 2021 from 11:00 a.m. –
12:00 p.m. The registration link for this webinar is
available here.
Please note that all data in the dashboard is self-reported by
local governments and is not independently verified by HCD. HCD
provides technical assistance regarding the APR form and
requirements. In addition, when accepting APRs, HCD has built-in
safeguards that ensure all required data fields in the APR form
are completed and will continue to explore ways to increase the
accuracy of reporting.
The APR Dashboard is one of the interactive tools HCD is offering
as part of its new
Open Data Tools webpage, which is intended to democratize
housing data and serve as a user-friendly portal for local
governments, advocacy organizations, academia, and the general
public.
